Massive local protest can force national attention onto a proposed base

Evidence

Thanks to the Presidio’s creation and continuing protests, the largest of which drew an estimated hundred thousand people in a city with just 115,000 inhabitants, No Dal Molin gained national and international attention. “We felt so powerful,” Marco Palma, a No Dal Molin spokesperson, told me. “We felt it was impossible that the base could be built. Because when you have so much energy from so many people, we felt like we could do anything in the world.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 910

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Local protest can stop new base construction even when it cannot close existing bases — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 943; Networks of local protest can constitute national politics from the ground up — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 620; Local protest movements can aggregate into a national politics without top-down coordination — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 620 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Local protest can stop new base construction even when it cannot close existing bases — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 943; Networks of local protest can constitute national politics from the ground up — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 620; Local protest movements can aggregate into a national politics without top-down coordination — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 620 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Sheer mass protest changes nothing without organization, goals, and structures #complicates (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2163